St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-19
TOO FOND AND FOOLISH.
A Young American Girl in Paris
Yields to the Wiles of an
Italian Roue,
And Learns Too Late That Her
Seducer is None Other Than
Assassin Pranzini,
Extracts frcm Some of the Letters
She Wrote to Her "Heart's
Best Love-"
The Boston Photographer, Who Took
Indecent Pictures, Held for
Further Hearing.

NEW YORK, July 1S.-The Paris cor
respondent of the World, writing under
date of July 9, says the novel side of the
character of the American girl abroad
is disclosed to the public view by
packet of letters found in the possession
OF Pranzini, the dastardly murderer of
poor Marie Regnault, whose trial COM
menced to-day. From these letters it
appears that the writer the daughter of
a New York baeker, became acquainted
with a plausible adventurer while spend
ing the fall of 1856 at one of the large
hotels of Paris. The acquaintance soon
rlpened into something warmer, as will
be revealed by the passages from CORE
spOndence which | give below. There
seems to be no reasonable doubt that the
murder of Mary Regnault was planned
and executed with the purpose of OBJ
tanning sufficient money to carry the
Italian adventurer to New York. where
a young girl with more money than
brains was waiting to throw herself into
his arms. If, after he had killed and
robbed young Marie, who had placed
such trust in him. the scOundrel had not
in the hurry of his flight left behind
him on the scene of the murder a pair of
cuffs, which resulted in his arrest, there
can be no doubt that Pranzini, under
some other perhaps more noble name,
would be
AN INTERESTING FIGURE
IN the society of Newport and LenOx
this summer. The day subsequent to
her arrival in New York from Paris
Miss E. writes:
My family is happy at seeing us all well
again and at home They were always afraid
that some misfortune would befal1 us alone
i'll Paris. Somebody, indeed did befall me,
and am glad of it. My mother desires me
to say that she has very favorable opinion
OF you, and that she remembers you with
affectonate interest, which is very lucky be-
cause she Is a woman of strong prejudices.
III you come here you just send me a line
saying Il am here You may then come and
see my family as often as you wish to- The
city is very attractive in winter, al
most as nice as Paris. New York
is not SO wicked, or rather.
know, trumpet their vices to the world We
hide ours. Like all great cities, of course
New-York is immoral, but the women are not
so frlveieus.as PaIisienEes and there is much
remember how gave myself to you without
reservation on that fatal day; how placed
myself entirely at your mercy, tremble be-
cause you would never believe that loved
then Tor the first time. and that L was SO
COULD REFUSE NOTHING
l should have waited until as YOU prom
lsed, you had made me your wife, | have
made terrible mistake, that is, unless you
not SO terrible after all. My mother is sur
prlsed at the depth of my love for YOU. She
believes, however, in fatality and thinks | do
well i'll obeying the impulse of MY heart. You
told me the last night we spent together in
Paris that when you were young your father
told you to grow up strong and athletic,
and not be too intellectual, but have
lots or muscle and common sense.
You also told me you were very
sensitive and impressionable, and that often
the least thing would quite upset you, little
nothing about which most people would
not think all instant All this tells me YOU
have refined nature, and do so love sensa-
tive lmpressionable people,. always wear
around me, for | wish to keep my eyes for
you alone. | was so glad to see that YOU were
so strong and fearless that evening you spoke
TO me of enemies that harassed you. / do
not love men who are all fat flesh. l love
manly strength and common sense.
Miss E.'S letters follow at short inter-
walls of three and four days. From them
it appears that in order to explain away
his inability to come to America, Pran-
Zini had cOncOcted story to the effect
that he was detained in Paris by
A LAWSUIT,
in which his whole fortune was at
stake. AT the end of October Miss
Emily writes:
Paris is the most vicious city ON the face of
the earth, there is such low standard of
morality. There is one good thing about
Parisians, however they conceal nothing.
There is much depravity and dissi-
patton here, but not the same hardi-
hood is shown i'll the committing of
it. Besides there are many societies for the
of I-in r Oh
have you leave that great corrupt city. 1t is
so full of adVenturers, rows and all manner
of temptations. ] would like very much to
study Italian, but the accent is too much for
me, but | sing an Italian song every day, in
my imagination at least. AS l sing $40 Tamo
Tanto' kiss your photograph. 1 went to
church last Sunday and came home so
greatly edited that my family hardly
knew me.
During the early weeks of 1887 Miss
E. complains bitterly that her letters
are not answered. PranZini, who doubt
less at the time was fully occupied with
other intrigueS. at last resorts to heroic
measures which at once saves him from
the diSpleaSureS of his mistress and
casts
THE MANTLE OF ROMANCE
about his life. He dictates to friend
cablegram which announces that he has
been desperately wounded in duel,
but is now out of danger. On the 18TH
of March. the day before Pranzini com
mitted his dastardly crime, Miss E.
writes:
This morning was playing on the violin
when your dispatch arrived. l was so happy
that could have sung on all day with this as
the burden of my song: 'sMy darling is out
of danger. out of danger. My father has
learned that we correspond and has taken
mother severely to task for it. She told him
all nhOut little romance of last Wintar
that is as much as poor mamma knows
about it.
This is the last of the American let
tiers. Probably before another was
written some morning in the bosom of
her family through the cable accounts
Miss E. learned the sinister character of
her adorable Don Juan.
The Gay Boston Girls.